Encoded Archival Description Tag Library, Version
2002

EAD Elements

<change> Change

Description:

An optional subelement in the <revisiondesc> portion of <eadheader> used
for a brief description of an update made to an EAD document. Additions to
a finding aid or significant recoding should be noted, but not correction of
a few typographical errors. The <change> element is modeled on a header
element in the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) DTD. The TEI recommends that
revisions be entered and numbered in reverse chronological order, with the
most recent <change> first.

The <edition> element can be used to designate a finding aid that has
been so substantively changed that it constitutes a new version and supersedes
earlier versions of the finding aid.